8.8 Billion Earth-Like Planets In Milky Way

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America journal, conducted with data gathered from the Kepler telescope, suggests that there are at least 8.8 billion planets in our galaxy which are about the same mass as Earth, and orbit single stars similar to ours at a distance where surface water would exist in a liquid state.



How freaking cool is that?

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